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Goodson and List Top Leaderboard at 2004 New Year’s Invitational 1/12/2004
Goodson and List Top Leaderboard at 2004 New Year’s Invitational After the opening round of the New Year’s Invitational in St. Petersburg, Fla., two current members of the Vanderbilt men’s golf program, junior Lance Goodson and freshman Luke List, top the leaderboard with identical 5-under par 67’s. Former VU All-America Brandt Snedeker is three shots back with a 70, while another player for this season’s Black and Gold, junior Ben McClung, opened with a 1-under par 71. List (Ringgold, Ga.) demonstrated extraordinary promise during his initial fall season at VU by registering four Top Ten finishes in five events. Included in that total were a fourth-place finish at the Country Club of Louisiana Intercollegiate, during which he shot a 7-under 65 to establish a school record for most shots under par in a single round, as well as 10th-place finishes at the Mason Rudolph, SMU Stonebridge Invitational and the Coca-Cola Tournament of Champions. Two Top Ten finishes added to the resume of Vanderbilt’s Lance Goodson (Birmingham, Ala.) as the junior shot an even-par 142 to rank sixth at the Mason Rudolph and carded a 4-under total of 212 at the Coca-Cola Tournament of Champions to finish in a tie for eighth and help VU capture the team title. McClung, a Ponte Verda, Fla., native posted two rounds of 71 in the fall campaign and registered a tie for 15th at the Coca-Cola Tourney with a 1-under par 215. The New Year’s Invitational is being played on the course at the St. Petersburg Country Club (estab. 1924), former host to an annual stop on the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Tour, the St. Petersburg Open from 1937-1964. The VU men’s golf program will open the spring season on Feb. 8-10 at the Sawgrass Invitational in Ponte Verda, Fla. The Commodores are hoping to add to the success gained during the fall campaign in which the Black and Gold posted three top-five team finishes and grabbed the title at the Coca-Cola Tournament of Champions in Knoxville, Tenn., with a 15-under par total of 849. -VU- |
